Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
One has to weigh all of one's values always in relative terms. On the upside, you get people who are not acting… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I was overpowered by being in the world, by other people and their lives I couldn’t lead, their jobs I couldn’t do… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
We see people of kindness, compassion, and possibly even faith being told, "Because of a characteristic with which you were born, you… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If I understand correctly, part of the objection to homosexuality used to have to do with the fact that gay people didn't… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I understand perfectly well why the Catholic Church preaches against abortion. But it shouldn't be the purpose of the Catholic Church to… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
People who believe that they are going to be excommunicated and shamed, or whatever other dark things may happen to them, are… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
“In the throws of depression, one reaches a strange point at which it is impossible to see the line between ones own theatricality and… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
“Since I am writing a book about depression, I am often asked in social situations to describe my own experiences, and I usually end… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
One the one hand, the simple fact that there are children and that I do have an effect on them has been one of… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
We need to acknowledge that families come in multiple shapes and sizes, that love is not a finite asset, and that caregiving involves more… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
